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Harvey Price
Assistant Professor of Music
Room 128
Amy E. du Pont Music Building
302-831-6683
 
 

PRIVATE STUDY POLICIES FOR PERCUSSION  FALL 06

1. Lessons:  All students taking private lessons as Music Majors, will receive 13 one hour lessons per semester.  This will generally be divided up as one per week. All students taking private lessons as BA, Music Minor, or Merit Scholarship will receive 13 half hour lessons per semester.  This will generally be divided up as one per week.

2. Make up lessons:  Because of my busy performance schedule outside of the University, it will be necessary for me to miss an occasional lesson of yours.  I will notify you as far in advance as possible when these events come up.  We will arrange a make up lesson sometime within that two weeks. Subsequently, you will be allowed ONE missed lesson each semester that will be made up.  These can be for unforeseen problems on your end; late paper, emergency doctor appointment, etc.  However, please contact me as soon as possible, either by phone,(429-5812, home, 831-6683, office) or email, (hprice@udel.edu),  if you are not coming to a lesson.  If I do not hear from you by the start of your lesson time, and you have not arrived, that lesson will not be made up AND YOUR GRADE WILL BE REDUCED BY 1/2 OF A LETTER GRADE. 

3. Lesson preparation:  Music Majors are expected to practice at least four hours a day for your upcoming lesson.  Music Minors, BA, or Merit Scholarship students are expected to practice two hours a day. Everyone must log their daily practice time and email it to me every day.   Please be prepared for your lesson. Please have all recordings, books, sticks, etc. ready to go at your appointed lesson time.  Please do not interrupt someone else's lesson.   Please do not leave material in the room that you will need for classes that day.  Please do not leave clothes in the percussion room.

4. Grading policy: Your grade for private study will be made up of the following components:
60% of the grade will be lesson preparation every week.
30% of the grade will be your daily lesson log.  Must be within two weeks.
5% of the grade will be your jury performance. (See Juries).
5% of the grade will be rep class attendance.
 

5. Juries: Are a performance that you will be required to do at the end of the semester.  This performance will consist of material that you have worked and prepared throughout the semester as well as sight-reading.  Jury sign-up sheets usually go up around the first week of December.  If you have a Sophomore Review or Junior or Senior recital that semester, you are excused from Juries.

6. Rep class: Will take place every Monday from 1:25 - 2:20 for sight reading and every Wednesday from 1:25 - 2:20pm, unless otherwise posted.   Your attendance is mandatory, unless you have a lab conflict that you absolutely cannot change.  Please refer to the rep class schedule. 

7. Materials:  You will need to have the following mallets, sticks, and books for your lessons each week.  These mallet and stick selections  are minimums:  One pair of Glenn Steele Model snare drum sticks.  One pair of Innovative xylo mallets # IP905.  One pair of Balter # 10 bell mallets.  Two pair of Innovative marimba/vibe mallets #RS251.   Three pair of timpani mallets # BLA (Black Swamp) DG-1, 2, and 3. One A tuning fork.  One triangle holder, Weiss Brand metal.   One set of triangle beaters, Abl, tri, btr, set. $35.00.   George Hamilton Green Instruction Course for the Xylophone.  Podemski Snare drum book.  Fourteen Snare Drum solos by John Pratt. Saul Goodman Timpani book. 
The quickest and least expensive place to purchase these materials is through Steve Weiss Music.  215 659 0100.

8. Practice log policy:  You will need to email me a daily practice log that is current within two weeks of your post. I will not accept them later than that.  Failure to do this will result in the following grade deductions:

No log for two weeks,  50% of the practice log grade.  (30% to 15%)
No log for four weeks,  50% of the practice loge grade. ( 0 credit)